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TFS Book Review - Kenny Moore’s “Best Efforts: Great Runners and Great Races”
Posted July 8th, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Jesse Squire
Section: Motivation, Books, Special Features, TFS Reviews
Best Efforts: Great Runners and Great Races, Volume 1
by Kenny Moore
Daybreak Press (Eugene, OR) 2008
Available through KennyMoore.us ($14.95)
This book, originally published in 1983, is back in print again. For years it was among the most difficult running books to find, generally going for upwards of $100 at the various online auction sites. Mostly, your options were interlibrary loan or just plain luck (as I had when stumbling across a copy of The Self-Made Olympian at a coffee shop for $3.95). In the manner you’d expect–quiet and understated–Kenny was selling and signing books in the back of a booth at the Olympic Trials this week with no advertising or fanfare. If you didn’t walk in, you wouldn’t have known.
The book is a collection of pieces written for Sports Illustrated from the ’70s through 1980, but by no means a complete one. The “Volume One” attached to this new edition refers to a planned second collection of articles from 1981 through the present. The subject are wide-ranging and include Bill Bowerman, John Akii-Bua, Roger Bannister, Steve Prefontaine, Lasse Viren, Bill Rodgers, Mary Decker, Eamonn Coghlan, the 1971 Fukuoka Marathon, the 1979 Golden Mile, and others.
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